# Design By Contract - Thread: https://externals.io/message/22827 - Original archive: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/22827 - Started by James Crane on 2006-04-18T10:27:32+00:00 - Messages: 5 - Reply by email to internals@lists.php.net - More for agents: search with https://externals.io/search.md?q={query} · JSON API at https://externals.io/api · documentation at https://externals.io/llms.txt --- ## #22827 — James Crane — 2006-04-18T10:27:32+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/22827#22827 I've been reading and I discovered a concept called Design By Contract. I've not seen any particular libraries to aid in this particular development design process, but I was wondering if you folks had, or if there were plans to consider providing for this functionality within PHP. (A longshot, I know, but it's worth a shot.) M.T. --- ## #22829 — Michael Wallner — 2006-04-18T11:10:08+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/22827#22829 · In reply to: #22827 James Crane wrote: > I've been reading and I discovered a concept called Design By > Contract. I've not seen any particular libraries to aid in this > particular development design process, but I was wondering if you > folks had, or if there were plans to consider providing for this > functionality within PHP. (A longshot, I know, but it's worth a shot.) Please refer to http://php.net/interfaces, http://php.net/spl and php-general@lists.php.net Regards, -- Michael - http://dev.iworks.at/ext-http/http-functions.html.gz --- ## #22835 — Sebastian Bergmann — 2006-04-18T15:26:44+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/22827#22835 · In reply to: #22827 James Crane schrieb: > I've been reading and I discovered a concept called Design By > Contract. I've not seen any particular libraries to aid in this > particular development design process, but I was wondering if you > folks had, or if there were plans to consider providing for this > functionality within PHP. The only language that I know of that supports Design-by-Contract through language features is, of course, Eiffel. PHPUnit [1] supports [2] the same approach to Design-by-Contract that other Unit Test frameworks provide, too. But that would be a topic for another mailinglist. -- [1] http://www.phpunit.de/ [2] http://www.phpunit.de/pocket_guide/2.3/en/test-first-programming.html -- Sebastian Bergmann http://www.sebastian-bergmann.de/ GnuPG Key: 0xB85B5D69 / 27A7 2B14 09E4 98CD 6277 0E5B 6867 C514 B85B 5D69 --- ## #22842 — Marcus Boerger — 2006-04-18T18:07:46+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/22827#22842 · In reply to: #22835 Hello Sebastian, interfaces are contracts as well as any signature is a contract. marcus Tuesday, April 18, 2006, 5:26:44 PM, you wrote: > James Crane schrieb: > > […] > The only language that I know of that supports Design-by-Contract > through language features is, of course, Eiffel. > PHPUnit [1] supports [2] the same approach to Design-by-Contract that > other Unit Test frameworks provide, too. But that would be a topic for > another mailinglist. > -- > [1] http://www.phpunit.de/ > [2] http://www.phpunit.de/pocket_guide/2.3/en/test-first-programming.html > -- > Sebastian Bergmann http://www.sebastian-bergmann.de/ > GnuPG Key: 0xB85B5D69 / 27A7 2B14 09E4 98CD 6277 0E5B 6867 C514 B85B 5D69 Best regards, Marcus --- ## #22845 — Sebastian Bergmann — 2006-04-18T18:38:15+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/22827#22845 · In reply to: #22842 Marcus Boerger schrieb: > interfaces are contracts as well as any signature is a contract. I know, but the term "Design by Contract" [1] means another kind of contract. -- [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_by_Contract -- Sebastian Bergmann http://www.sebastian-bergmann.de/ GnuPG Key: 0xB85B5D69 / 27A7 2B14 09E4 98CD 6277 0E5B 6867 C514 B85B 5D69